April

April started out with Easter. This year Easter, April Fool's and General Conference were all the same day. We celebrated by having a big Easter dinner and egg hunt at Oma and Opa's. This year Oma had 2 giant golden eggs. Lincoln found one and I found the other. This was my prize, a chocolate egg with white chocolate chicks inside!

Our baby turned 9 months and officially started walking! We also finally got him on a good nap schedule, he started sleeping in his own bed and in his own room, and he started sleeping through the night!!! It took some practice, and he hated laying down at first. We got some really great videos of him sleeping sitting up! He also learned to climb and climbed anything any everything. The baby gates became a necessity.

Nate finished coaching the Meridian Middle School boys C basketball team. The kids sure liked him, the parents liked him, and I think he's hoping they'll let him come back and coach this year! His team won more games than the A or B team (2 games). Nate wasn't so sure about coaching basketball and at the first couple practices he had them running soccer drills. My dad, who has coached years and years worth of basketball, helped out a little bit and said that was smart since the few times he coached soccer he had the kids run basketball drills.

We finally made it to a Home Depot kids workshop where Spencer and Nate made a birdhouse. Spencer was disappointed that no birds ever did use it before it fell off the window and broke.

One Sunday afternoon we hiked Table Rock with our friends the Ashtons. It's about a 3 mile roundtrip hike and the kids did pretty good. Spencer fell at one point and then Nate had to carry 2 kids.

We made a few trips to the Discovery Center. Spencer still loves the little kid area the best, as does Kade. We love going to DCI during the colder months, it's a great way to get out of the house!

Spencer also earned a trip to Wahooz. We spent a long evening there and he played his heart out. I think he did everything twice. And even Kade got to have some fun!

March

8 months for Kade!

Early in March Aaron and Alyssa were making a trip to Pullman en route to a job interview in Montana. Allison and Dallin were nice enough to invite us up for a mini reunion! We checked out the taxidermy museum on campus and Nate and Spencer discovered an additional room the Alldredge's didn't even know existed! It even had a dinosaur fossil in it! We had nice weather on Saturday so we drove down to a park along the river and let the kids play! I've gotten really bad at taking picture so this one of Lizzy reading to Kade is the only one I got from the trip.

On our way home we stopped at A&W in Meadows and Kade got his first taste of a rootbeer float, he was a big fan.

At the end of March our ward had its annual Easter breakfast and egg hunt. Spencer and friends had a great time!

We also made it to Stella's grand opening where Spencer wasn't too sure about the Easter bunny...I enjoyed a strawberry waffle boat and have craved one ever since!

Nate turned 33 on the 22. We all love him.

 I babysat my sisters boys. Olas was so tired he fell asleep playing on the floor.

And a couple pictures for fun...